| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1821 - 350 sider
...you recollect those beautiful lines of Milton : - • Now came still evening on, and twilight grayHad in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied;...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd; now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
| John Milton - 1821 - 226 sider
...left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Wore slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
| Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 752 sider
...subject ; the first describes the approach of evening, and the retiring of all animals to their repose : Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their...nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung. When Eve passed the irksome night preceding her fall, she, in a dream, imagines herself thus reproached... | |
| John Milton - 1821 - 346 sider
...twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and hird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires; Hesperus, that led G0S The starry host, rode... | |
| 1821 - 494 sider
...grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; ". ' They to their grassy couch, these to their nesti Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale, She...Silence was pleased; now glowed the firmament With livid Sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest, till the Moon Rising in clouded... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 sider
...on, and twiligh't grayHad in her sober liv'ry all tilings clad. Silence accompanied ; forecast und bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests...but the wakeful nightingale. •* She all night long heram'rous descant sung : *•« Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament *« With living sapphires... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 564 sider
...in the day, " As shaming anie eye should thee behold — ." So, Milton's Paradise Lost, book iv. : " These to their nests " Were slunk ; all but the wakeful...; " She all night long her amorous descant sung." To record anciently signified to sing. So, in Sir Philip Sydney's Ourania, by NB [Nicholas Breton]... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 sider
...Mam and Eve, retiring to rest: Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight grey Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nesta Were slunk; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung ; Silence... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 sider
...sense, and takes the ravish'd soul. EVENING. Milton. Now came still evening on ; and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad : — Silence...night long, her amorous descant sung. Silence was pleas'd.' Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rose... | |
| John Platts - 1822 - 844 sider
...and variety of numbers, than that of Milton : — Now eatng still evening on, and twilight gray Had m her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied...all night long her amorous descant sung. Silence was pteas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest,... | |
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